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GARY HART is a slightly liberal Thatcherite, and enough is said about Walter Mondale by the fact that a lot of people see Hart as a radical alternative to him.

But isn't Jesse Jackson something different? Doesn't the fact that a black person can run for the presidential nomination, with some success, in the Democratic Party, show that radicals can do something in that Party?

Maybe the party of the Dixiecrat southern racists, the second pillar of US imperialism's political establishment, is not as bad as it has been made out to be.

Vicious Not so. US capitalism can present itself in a black skin as well as a white one, and it doesn't become any less vicious.

Jackson's statements that he will fully support Hart or Mondale if they win the nomination confirm that. But more spectacular has been Jackson's own recent sally into anti-Semitism.

In an interview with a newspaper reporter he called Jews 'hymies' , and New York 'hymiętown'. Jackson then apologised, but he was soon trouble again.

Louis Farrakhan, a 'Black Muslim' supporter or Jackson, denounced the (black) reporter involved as a 'traitor' and praised Hitler as a 'great man'. Jackson was reduced to saying that he had no control over Farrakhan.

Anti-Semitism, sadly, is not new in US black politics. In Jackson with Mondale some areas it has the same sort of social basis as had antiSemitism among the bitterly oppressed Polish people before World War 1: Jews own shops in black areas, and become scapegoats for the inhumanities of capitalism.

Now Jackson's statement has provided new fuel for powerful anti-black racist forces. There was already a semi-fascist group called 'Jews against Jackson' harassing Jackson's campaign. Cati 'Ethnic politics' within the framework of the Democratic Party is no way to liberation for US blacks. It can only lead hem down the stinking blind ailey of community-againstcommunity recriminations and petty jostling for advantage.

The campaign would wish to thank, on Vinod's behalf, all those who have struggled for Vinod's right to remain a part of his local community. We recognise, as Vinod did, that his struggle was a part of that of many other black people living under the shadow of racism in the law. We believe that Vinod's deportation, despite the massive support for him from the general public and the local authorities, indicates that the struggle against racist deportations has entered a new phase. We pledge our support and solidarity to all those who continue to struggle against the cancerous evil of racism which can uproot members of our community in such a brutal and inhuman way.

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